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Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Review of codes of conduct, voluntary guidelines and principles relevant for farm data sharing

Codes of conduct, voluntary guidelines, sets of principles on how to transparently govern farm data are a recent thing. While laws and regulations that govern personal data are becoming more and more common, legislation still does not cover data flows in many industries where different actors in the value chain need to share data and at the same time protect all involved from the risks of data sharing. Data in these value chains is currently governed through private data contracts or licensing agreements, which are normally very complex and on which data producers have very little negotiating power. Codes of conduct have started to emerge to fill the legislative void and to set common standards for data sharing contracts: codes provide principles that the signatories/subscribers/members agree to apply in their contracts

Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduces Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface

This paper demonstrates opportunities for reducing errors with orienting graphical interfaces for voting. We have built many interfaces to explore opportunities for keeping voters aware of selections they have made and are making. Tests of our best prototypes show that missed races and incorrect selection errors are greatly reduced with orienting graphics. The interface reduces errors significantly while extending the time required to vote

Handling of differences and marital satisfaction during childrearing

Thesis advisor: Bernard O'BrienThis study investigated the relationship between handling of differences in marriage and marital satisfaction during the childrearing stage of the family life cycle. The mediating effect of gender was also examined.Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1998.Submitted to: Boston College. School of Education.Discipline: Counseling, Developmental Psychology, and Research Methods

Using the Kaleidoscope Career Model to Examine Generational Differences in Work Attitudes

The purpose of this paper is to examine, utilising the Kaleidoscope Career Model, whether members of the Baby Boom generation and Generation X differ in their needs for authenticity, balance, and challenge. This paper won the 2009 McGraw Hill Irwin Distinguished Paper Award at the Southwestern Academy of Management

The Conservation Reserve Program: Economic Implications for Rural America

This report estimates the impact that high levels of enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) have had on economic trends in rural counties since the program's inception in 1985 until today. The results of a growth model and quasi-experimental control group analysis indicate no discernible impact by the CRP on aggregate county population trends. Aggregate employment growth may have slowed in some high-CRP counties, but only temporarily. High levels of CRP enrollment appear to have affected farm-related businesses over the long run, but growth in the number of other nonfarm businesses moderated CRP's impact on total employment. If CRP contracts had ended in 2001, simulation models suggest that roughly 51 percent of CRP land would have returned to crop production, and that spending on outdoor recreation would decrease by as much as $300 million per year in rural areas. The resulting impacts on employment and income vary widely among regions having similar CRP enrollments, depending upon local economic conditions.Community/Rural/Urban Development, Land Economics/Use,

Improvement of the Threespine Stickleback Genome Using a Hi-C-Based Proximity-Guided Assembly

Scaffolding genomes into complete chromosome assemblies remains challenging even with the rapidly increasing sequence coverage generated by current next-generation sequence technologies. Even with scaffolding information, many genome assemblies remain incomplete. The genome of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), a fish model system in evolutionary genetics and genomics, is not completely assembled despite scaffolding with high-density linkage maps. Here, we first test the ability of a Hi-C based proximity-guided assembly (PGA) to perform a de novo genome assembly from relatively short contigs. Using Hi-C based PGA, we generated complete chromosome assemblies from a distribution of short contigs (20-100 kb). We found that 96.40% of contigs were correctly assigned to linkage groups (LGs), with ordering nearly identical to the previous genome assembly. Using available bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) end sequences, we provide evidence that some of the few discrepancies between the Hi-C assembly and the existing assembly are due to structural variation between the populations used for the 2 assemblies or errors in the existing assembly. This Hi-C assembly also allowed us to improve the existing assembly, assigning over 60% (13.35 Mb) of the previously unassigned (~21.7 Mb) contigs to LGs. Together, our results highlight the potential of the Hi-C based PGA method to be used in combination with short read data to perform relatively inexpensive de novo genome assemblies. This approach will be particularly useful in organisms in which it is difficult to perform linkage mapping or to obtain high molecular weight DNA required for other scaffolding methods

Readiness to Succeed Preparing the Scholar-Practitioner

This report expands on a previous working group’s effort to clarify the alignment of existing scholarship around doctoral education with how students move through the process at Walden University (Salter et al., 2013). Following up on the recommendations in that report, the current working group was charged with understanding students’ readiness or preparedness to move through these stages/phases across the entire student timeline from prospect to graduate. Additionally, the group attempted to map the services currently in place to support that journey while identifying opportunities to improve it

Perceived vs. Actual: Bridging the gap in the understanding of psychology majors’ skills

Abstract Introduction Psychology undergraduates gain various knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) from their curriculum as outlined in the American Psychological Association’s (2023) “Guidelines For the Undergraduate Psychology Major”, but what is preventing them from understanding and expressing these KSAs to employers? These KSAs acquired in the psychology curriculum are some of the most sought-after characteristics employers are looking for in candidates (National Association of Colleges and Employers, 2016). This study will help illuminate the paradox of how psychology is one of the most popular fields of study among undergraduate students while yielding one of the highest underemployment rates in the country by exploring the potential disconnect between the perceived and actual competencies undergraduate psychology students gain over their college career. Methods To identify the specific areas in which this disconnect potentially occurs, this study will seek input from undergraduate psychology majors at Appalachian State University regarding their perceptions of career readiness. To collect this information, a self-administered online questionnaire employing Qualtrics will be utilized. The questionnaire will be designed to clarify the potential gap between a student’s perceived KSAs and the KSAs they actually obtain from their undergraduate curriculum. The main focus of the questions will be to identify students’ perceived KSAs followed by supplemental questions focused on measuring potential contributing factors such as students’ awareness of career development opportunities, awareness of careers in psychology outside of graduate school, and students’ commitment to their prospective career path. Expected Results & Implications The findings of this research will serve as a valuable resource for addressing and narrowing the perceived-versus-actual skills gap prevalent among psychology undergraduates. Once this gap is understood, psychology undergraduate students will be able to better understand and communicate their actual KSAs leading to more accurate marketability of skills and therefore more professionally fulfilling employment opportunities. These findings will also help employers to better understand the capabilities of psychology undergraduates. Additionally, universities and their professors can use these findings to curate their curriculums to better prepare psychology majors for the workforce